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...that Rusumo Falls was a significant site during the
1994Rwandan genocide as thousands of dead bodies flowed underneath the bridge while a simultaneous stream of
refugees crossed over it, fleeing into
Tanzania to escape the fighting?
...that Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, now recognized as one of the leading poets of
Polish baroque, considered his career as a
courtier much more important than that of a poet?
...that North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for
St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while Pagans believe "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
...that in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship
curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
...that the
Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, who sang with great success at
La Scala and the
Paris Olympia, was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
...that in the course of the
Crimean War, the British and French Navies undertook three attempts to lay a siege to the town of
Taganrog?
...that the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to
1943 as part of
Khruschev's policy to minimize the scope of the
Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
...that the French inventor Félix du Temple accomplished in
1874 a short flight with his steam-powered aircraft Monoplane, often considered the first manned powered flight in history?
...that Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy, which is awarded to the
British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
...that Doe Lang, who performed on
Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling
self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm?
17 March 2006
18:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
...that Roadway air dispersion modeling was developed in the late 1960s and applied to two controversial major highway court cases in Virginia and New Jersey by 1971?
...that while the gold ceiling mosaics that gave the basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in
Pavia its name are no longer present, it still contains tombs such as those of Saint
Augustine mentioned by
Dante in Il Paradiso?
...that Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the
East Coast of the United States?
04:42, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
...that the Ascension Convent in the
Moscow Kremlin, known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite
tsarinas, was dismantled in
1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School?
... that the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced
jazz and
rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
...that rumour had it that Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneer of British
orthopaedic surgery, would attack people and break their bones in order to reset them?
...that the race movie, a
genre of films produced for
black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the
United States between
1915 and
1945?
...that Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a
Jew, was a close friend of
Hitler and according to a
MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
...that the
docu-dramaThe Road to Guantanamo, depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at
Guantanamo Bay, is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
...that Bonnybridge, forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in
Scotland, is considered by many
UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?
03:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
...that in local gigantism, parts of a limb can take gigantic shapes, without affecting other parts of the body?
...that
NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the
Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden in the
Himalayas?
...that the Black slug is the only species of
slug that when disturbed contracts into a hemispherical shape and starts rocking from side to side to confuse predators?
...that the
Brazilian city of Corumbaíba was founded after a local rancher saw a white wolf, which, according to a legend, would give him good luck, and then built a chapel thanking his luck?
...that the typical singing cowboys of early
Western films were
white hat wearing clean-shaven heroes with the habit of showing their emotions in song?
...that the Scintillant Hummingbird has bronze-green upperparts and a rufous and black-striped tail?
...that the
postminimalist artist, Gabriel Orozco, once sliced a
Citroën DS into three pieces length-wise, removed the central piece and then re-attached the two sides leading to an arrow-like
automobile?
... that the Soviet general Valentin Varennikov, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the
Soviet coup attempt of 1991, was eventually acqutted by the Russian court and took a seat in the
State Duma?
...that the Russian administrator Pavel Kiselyov was responsible for the creation of an important transport artery in
Bucharest - a
boulevard which now bears his name?
...that the Ottawa rules are a set of guidelines for doctors to aid them in deciding if a patient with
foot or
ankle pain should be offered
X-rays to diagnose a possible
bone fracture?
...that each year in the U.S., several sites complete soil contamination clean-up by using
microbes that eat up toxic chemicals in soil?
...that Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the
Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all?